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Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

19701h 28m

Overview

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...

Directed by Keiichi Ozawa
Written by Ryuzo Nakanishi
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Top Cast

Akira Kobayashi

Akira Kobayashi

Masaaki Kagari

Ryōhei Uchida

Ryōhei Uchida

Ryo Kuroki

Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno

Yuko Shiga

Mina Aoe

Mina Aoe

Miho

Asao Uchida

Asao Uchida

Tahei

Eiji Gō

Eiji Gō

Shiro Takimura

Junko Natsu

Junko Natsu

Reiko Kono

Megumi Matsumoto

Megumi Matsumoto

Yôko Kuroki

Y

Yoshirō Kitahara

Ono

Noriko Maki

Noriko Maki

Themes & Keywords

yakuzabar hostess

About Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies is a action, crime film released in 1970 exploring themes of yakuza, bar hostess. Directed by Keiichi Ozawa, it stars Akira Kobayashi, Ryōhei Uchida, Kumi Mizuno. Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...

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